In the eight decades since its publication, Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises', like a Rorschach blot, has measured not only critics' opinions of Hemingway, but the critical temper of the times. From early views of the novel as a satire of American expatriates or as a snapshot of the Lost Generation to recent conceptions of it as a study... more...

This is a collection of essays on the life and work of Ernest Hemingway by noted literary scholar Peter Hays. Collected together for the first time, these essays?including seven previously unpublished works?look at various aspects of Hemingway as author, man, and literary icon. more...